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Hacking ‘involved more journalists and papers than first thought’

November 15 2011, 12:01am, The Times

At least 28 News International employees are named in notes seized by police from a private investigator employed by the News of the World to hack phones, the public inquiry into press standards was told on its opening day.

More journalists and executives are possibly implicated in the scandal than previously thought. Police have arrested 14 people who worked for the NoW, from reporters to editors.

Robert Jay, QC, counsel to the inquiry, said the investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, may also have intercepted voicemails on behalf of The Sun and the Mirror.

Mulcaire wrote the words “The Sun” in the corner of a page of one of the notebooks he used to record details of messages left for people he was hired to investigate. The inquiry…